Tennis Parity Pay Talks

American tennis player Billie Jean King (right), President of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), at a meeting with a committee of the the All England Lawn Tennis Club to discuss more equal prize money for male and female tennis players, Wimbledon, London, 26th February 1975. Behind King (right to left) are: WTA executive director, Jerry Diamond (1928 - 1996), tennis player Ann Jones of Wimbledon's Committee of Management and Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burnett (1913 - 2011), Chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis Club. The meeting resulted in an increase in prize money for women from 70 to 80 percent of men's prizes and the promise of an annual review. (Photo by Daily Express/Archive Photos/Getty Images)